In this episode I react to new music from rock bands, both established and up-and-coming, to answer the question: Is rock really back? Remember to Hit Subscribe: @RickBeato My Beato Club supporters: Justin Scott Terence Mark Jason Murray Lucienne Kilpatrick Alexander Young Jason Wagner Todd Ladner Rob Kline Nicholas Long Tim Benson Leonardo Martins da Costa Rodrigues Eddie Perez David Solomon MICHAEL JOYCE Stephen Stubbs colin stead Jonathan Wentworth-Linton Patrick Payne MATTHEW KARIS Matthew Barouch Shaun Samuels Danny Kurywchak Gregory Reedy Sean Coleman Alexander Verbitskiy CL Turner Jason Pappafotis John Fulford Margaret Carno Robert C David M Combs Eric Flatt Reto Spoerli Herr Moritz Adam Monte St. Johns Jon Beezley Peter DeVault Eric Nabstedt Eric Beggs Rich Germano Brian Bloom Peter Pillitteri Piush Dahal Toby Guidry
692: A Thinking Hitch
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
130+ Artists Illuminate the Vast Creative Possibilities of the Nightlight
130+ artists, 130+ distinctive takes on the household staple.
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Water World
Water World, created by Seán Doran from imagery captured by a NASA/NOAA weather satellite, is a gorgeous, swirling, painterly portrait of the Earth’s dynamic atmosphere. Doran calls it “a meditative slow gaze at Earth’s atmosphere, revealing the hidden depths of activity in the water-filled skies of planet Earth”. It’s 4K, so put it on the biggest screen you can find and just sit back and watch.
Tags: clouds · Earth · meditative · mesmerizing · Sean Doran · video · weather
Datasette Agent
datasette-agent-sprites 0.1a0
Release: datasette-agent-sprites 0.1a0
A Datasette Agent plugin for running commands in a Fly Sprites sandbox.
Tags: sandboxing, datasette, fly, datasette-agent
datasette-agent-charts 0.1a2
Release: datasette-agent-charts 0.1a2
- "View SQL query" buttons below rendered charts.
Tags: datasette, datasette-agent
datasette-agent 0.1a3
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a3
- "View SQL query" buttons for both visible tables and collapsed SQL result tool calls.
- Don't display empty reasoning chunks
- Improved handling of truncated responses - table still displays to the user even if the SQL results were truncated when showing the agent.
See Datasette Agent, an extensible AI assistant for Datasette.
Tags: datasette, datasette-agent
datasette-agent-charts 0.1a1
Release: datasette-agent-charts 0.1a1
- More color! Bar and waffle charts without a color column are shaded by magnitude with a sequential color scheme; color columns holding text values use the
observable10categorical scheme. #2- Now checks
execute-sqlpermission before running the query to find the column names.- Charts now display interactive tooltips.
- Fixed a bug where
waffleYcharts were not described to the agent.
Tags: datasette, datasette-agent
The Secret to Winning on Jeopardy . “To win on...
The Secret to Winning on Jeopardy. “To win on Jeopardy, you don’t need to learn everything. You just need to learn one thing about everything.” As an proficient player of Yell Answers At The TV Jeopardy in my teen years, I can confirm this strat.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple Sports Expands to More Than 90 New Countries on Cusp of World Cup
apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-sports-expands-to-more-than-90-new-countries-and-regions/
Paul Brown’s iPod . This is a lovely remembrance &...
Paul Brown’s iPod. This is a lovely remembrance & time capsule: a playable iPod emulator of “the music on the iPod my dad had in 2018 before he died”. Click wheel works and everything.
What Number Was Stephen Colbert Thinking Of?
One of the questions on The Colbert Questionert that Stephen Colbert would administer to his celebrity guests was “What number am I thinking of?” As you can see from this compilation, his answer was often, but not always, “no”.
A few of the guests said “42” but none ever said “69”?
So anyway, the Late Show is coming to an end tonight, a casualty of CBS’s newfound fealty to the Trump regime, and Stephen Colbert finally took the questionert himself. And yes, at last, he revealed the number that he was thinking of…to Robert De Niro no less:
Tags: Stephen Colbert · The Late Show · TV · video
This is impressive: an AI model has disproved an...
This is impressive: an AI model has disproved an 80-year-old conjecture by Paul Erdős. “The proof came from a new general-purpose reasoning model, rather than from a system trained specifically for mathematics.”
Three Hours of Unbelievable Moments From Nature, Narrated by David Attenborough
Wow, BBC Earth has posted this three-hour-long video to YouTube of David Attenborough narrating Unbelievable Moments From Nature. I’ve had it on in the background for the last little while as I’m working and it’s great.
Tags: David Attenborough · video
“US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola...
“US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts.” Just so fucking stupid and maddening and wasteful and dangerous and callous and evil.
Outrage over Israel's treatment of Gaza flotilla activists
Trump Destroyed USAID. Now People Are Dying....
Trump Destroyed USAID. Now People Are Dying. “Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the US would do this.”
Poorly Drawn Lines
• Reza
Ancient Seagulls
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Google I/O Keynote in 54 Seconds
Tight edit but covers the whole thing. (XCancel link; Threads link.)